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I'm using Firefox and while there are no unwanted popups, there are
these floating ads, sometimes with a video, which move around the window
and only go away after a while or when you click on the Close button. Is
there a way to configure Firefox to avoid these floating ads?
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

Alfred Molon wrote:
> I'm using Firefox and while there are no unwanted popups, there are
> these floating ads, sometimes with a video, which move around the window
> and only go away after a while or when you click on the Close button. Is
> there a way to configure Firefox to avoid these floating ads?
disable javascript

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until just after you need it.

Alfred Molon wrote:
> I'm using Firefox and while there are no unwanted popups, there are
> these floating ads, sometimes with a video, which move around the window
> and only go away after a while or when you click on the Close button. Is
> there a way to configure Firefox to avoid these floating ads?

You have two options, the easy one is

turn off your javascript

the more advanced one

install a proxy that has filtering, like privoxy



//Aho

Alfred Molon on 31/05/2006 wrote:

>I'm using Firefox and while there are no unwanted popups, there are
>these floating ads, sometimes with a video, which move around the window
>and only go away after a while or when you click on the Close button. Is
>there a way to configure Firefox to avoid these floating ads?

Ever since these ads started to appear I swore never to use the services
they advertise. Perhaps in the end only a highly visible campaign to
boycott all services and goods advertised by these sort of ads will
succeed in making people think twice in employing them.

--
Rob

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canopus_archives/

On 2006-06-01, Canopus <> wrote:
> Alfred Molon on 31/05/2006 wrote:
>
>>I'm using Firefox and while there are no unwanted popups, there are
>>these floating ads, sometimes with a video, which move around the window
>>and only go away after a while or when you click on the Close button. Is
>>there a way to configure Firefox to avoid these floating ads?
>
> Ever since these ads started to appear I swore never to use the services
> they advertise. Perhaps in the end only a highly visible campaign to
> boycott all services and goods advertised by these sort of ads will
> succeed in making people think twice in employing them.
>

Even worst, the TV shows are now having "pop ups" where the pop-ups also
hide what one wants to see, e.g. the current score of a game or like
the "Discovery" channel that has animation that would hide an area
on the screen that the narrator is pointing to as what was "important".

plew@csus_abcdefghij.edu on 01/06/2006 wrote:

>>Ever since these ads started to appear I swore never to use the services
>>they advertise. Perhaps in the end only a highly visible campaign to
>>boycott all services and goods advertised by these sort of ads will
>>succeed in making people think twice in employing them.
>>
>
>Even worst, the TV shows are now having "pop ups" where the pop-ups also
>hide what one wants to see, e.g. the current score of a game or like
>the "Discovery" channel that has animation that would hide an area
>on the screen that the narrator is pointing to as what was "important".

Thank God that isn't happening in the UK yet. When it does I think I'll
throw the TV out of the window and revert back to radio. Come to think of
it I virtually have anyway due to the choice of hundreds of channels with
only rubbish or repeats on them

--
Rob

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canopus_archives/

Canopus wrote:
>
> Thank God that isn't happening in the UK yet. When it does I think I'll
> throw the TV out of the window and revert back to radio. Come to think
> of it I virtually have anyway due to the choice of hundreds of channels
> with only rubbish or repeats on them
>

Most often repeats of RUBBISH!

Canopus on 01/06/2006 wrote:

>Alfred Molon on 31/05/2006 wrote:
>
>>I'm using Firefox and while there are no unwanted popups, there are
>>these floating ads, sometimes with a video, which move around the window
>>and only go away after a while or when you click on the Close button. Is
>>there a way to configure Firefox to avoid these floating ads?
>
>Ever since these ads started to appear I swore never to use the services
>they advertise. Perhaps in the end only a highly visible campaign to
>boycott all services and goods advertised by these sort of ads will
>succeed in making people think twice in employing them.

I just got a really bad one on the BBC Radio Times web site when I went to
see the synopsis of a program, it lasted for over ten minutes. I'm sure
web sites would not approve of an advert making their site unusable. I
sent the following to bbc.co.uk

"Dear Sir,

"I'm writing hopefully to bring to your attention an increasingly
frustrating problem with pop up Flash adverts on your site. For example I
just clicked on a program link to see its synopsis and no sooner did I
start reading it than a pop up Flash advert came up advertising:

"Now Showing
"RS4 Anatomy of Fear

"Three or four minutes later it is still there and obscuring part of the
text. These adverts are allowed to be fed by your Radio Times site, they
are not pulled in by spyware on my system. Please be one of the first
sites to stop allowing them as it drives people away to more usable sites
and many people have started boycotting products advertised by them (when
they advertise products) as a protest against these invasive techniques.

"(10 minutes later it still obscures the text with no x to turn it off)

"Regards,

"Rob T-P

"PS. Just after I sent this to my outbox the Flash ad disappeared only to
come back 30 seconds later and now totally obscuring text, then it
initiated an audio advert about something showing on some channel. Please
take action against these things."

Don't just sit by and get frustrated when it happens to you, vent your
frustration by mailing the webmaster and complain in a friendly tone
explaining the practice is bad for their business.

--
Rob

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canopus_archives/

>> Is there a way to configure Firefox to avoid these floating ads?
>
>You have two options, the easy one is
>
> turn off your javascript
>
>the more advanced one
>
> install a proxy that has filtering, like privoxy


I use Privoxy, and while it does almost everything I want it to do,
these "floating ads" do still get through. If anyone has an action to
disable these ads without crippling javascript, please post it.